"Games are very easily substituted for one another" I get what your saying but I think its the opposite. Meaning games have far less compition than movies, because all movies are the same interaction wise, you just watch them. Games are so much more dynamic with just interaction. Not to mention movies have a much longer history and derive so closely from books, so every good movie idea has been done probably 1000's of times, where every game idea is hardly ever repeated (just genre things are repeated).
"Whatever happened to just making hardware, and making games"
I'll tell you what happened, a little thing called market growth. The more the market grows the more this stuff will happen, in maybe 1-2 years the games industry will become much like the movie/music industry. With games taking 3-5 years and 20-200 people to create only big studios will be able to foot the bill and suck up the costs if the game tanks. Not to mention ad costs. This will lead to higher quality titles, but less of them and they will be even more of the same crap (just like the movie industry today).
In 2-5 years the games industry will surpase the movie industry in tearms of sales and revenue, because games cost 40-80/copy and movie just can't hang with that. When that happens expect this sort of stuff to happen daily.
1) rather than making the sender liable, make the business/person/entity the ad is for liable, this way there is no problem tracking down where the email came from (which seems to be the biggest problem right now with spam). this will also solve the problem of overseas junk mail, since most spam is sent from overseas, but the ad is for US businesses.
2) enforce the words SPAM or JUNK in the subject of the email, then servers, routers, and hubs can filter out these messages if domains don't want them.
spam must be enforced by the government at the federal level, if just the states do it, there will some stupid state that doesn't pass it and spam will prevail.
it is a huge internet resource hog, and the senders do not largely pay for resources they use, we do everytime we download it through our ISP.
one thing i really don't understand is that EVERYONE HATES SPAM, so why the hell is it so hard to pass legislation to make it illegal overnight??????
http://certs.ipsca.com/
I've been using them for a secure site for a while, they even have a free 6 month cert. They work by default in 90% of browsers, no warnings.
Basically you pay for what you get, the more you pay, the more browsers someones cert works in, because of root CA updates. But if you can just advise anyone using your site to update thier browser then its not a problem.
With as many bugs in all browsers, your flirting with viruses if you don't update them.
According to a Sound and Vision magazine blind hearing test a few months ago. People who spend their entire lives judging and listening to music judged mp3,wma,rp at different samplings with different types of audio and WMA won.
Of course maybe MS owns Sound and Vision and we are all blunted, but the limits of MS have to end somewhere, don't they?
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"Games are very easily substituted for one another" I get what your saying but I think its the opposite. Meaning games have far less compition than movies, because all movies are the same interaction wise, you just watch them. Games are so much more dynamic with just interaction. Not to mention movies have a much longer history and derive so closely from books, so every good movie idea has been done probably 1000's of times, where every game idea is hardly ever repeated (just genre things are repeated).
"Whatever happened to just making hardware, and making games" I'll tell you what happened, a little thing called market growth. The more the market grows the more this stuff will happen, in maybe 1-2 years the games industry will become much like the movie/music industry. With games taking 3-5 years and 20-200 people to create only big studios will be able to foot the bill and suck up the costs if the game tanks. Not to mention ad costs. This will lead to higher quality titles, but less of them and they will be even more of the same crap (just like the movie industry today). In 2-5 years the games industry will surpase the movie industry in tearms of sales and revenue, because games cost 40-80/copy and movie just can't hang with that. When that happens expect this sort of stuff to happen daily.
1) rather than making the sender liable, make the business/person/entity the ad is for liable, this way there is no problem tracking down where the email came from (which seems to be the biggest problem right now with spam). this will also solve the problem of overseas junk mail, since most spam is sent from overseas, but the ad is for US businesses. 2) enforce the words SPAM or JUNK in the subject of the email, then servers, routers, and hubs can filter out these messages if domains don't want them. spam must be enforced by the government at the federal level, if just the states do it, there will some stupid state that doesn't pass it and spam will prevail. it is a huge internet resource hog, and the senders do not largely pay for resources they use, we do everytime we download it through our ISP. one thing i really don't understand is that EVERYONE HATES SPAM, so why the hell is it so hard to pass legislation to make it illegal overnight??????
http://certs.ipsca.com/ I've been using them for a secure site for a while, they even have a free 6 month cert. They work by default in 90% of browsers, no warnings. Basically you pay for what you get, the more you pay, the more browsers someones cert works in, because of root CA updates. But if you can just advise anyone using your site to update thier browser then its not a problem. With as many bugs in all browsers, your flirting with viruses if you don't update them.
According to a Sound and Vision magazine blind hearing test a few months ago. People who spend their entire lives judging and listening to music judged mp3,wma,rp at different samplings with different types of audio and WMA won. Of course maybe MS owns Sound and Vision and we are all blunted, but the limits of MS have to end somewhere, don't they?
ms already has root privileges to our lives, society, and government, so i don't think my little stupid computer matters too much! :)
uh, glad i used wma since it better quality, just make sure you turn off the m$ secure digital contect 'feature'